roguelike

SKILL.md

Roguelike

A playbook for roguelikes — the turn engine, procedural dungeons, field-of-view, permadeath,
and run economy. This is a compositional skill: it orchestrates procedural generation,
tilemaps, save handling, and AI into a run-based game. It does not re-teach noise/RNG or
tilemap APIs; it defines the loop and the systems that make a run compelling.

When to use

Use when building a turn-based, grid-based dungeon crawler where each death ends the
run and the world is regenerated — a roguelike or "roguelite" (with meta-progression).

Use when designing procedural dungeons, FOV/fog-of-war, permadeath stakes, or loot tables.

When not to use: real-time action with roguelike dressing → build the action genre
(platformer/fps-shooter) and layer procedural-gen. Deep stats/quests/dialogue without
permadeath → rpg. Open-world needs/crafting → survival-crafting.

What makes it a roguelike (design anchor)